| P number: | P552934 |
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| Caption: | Burdiehouse Limestone. Harburn Limestone Mine, quarter mile south of Harburnhead and 2.5 miles south-east of West Calder. Mid Lothian. |
| Description: | A dark buff, fine-grained limestone containing numerous small dark grains, visible by hand lens. Composed of extremely finely divided turbid calcite containing a multitude of yellowish carbonate grains of all shapes up to about 1 mm across, and numerous fossil fragments . The latter include many thin shell fragments and scarce complete small ostracods. There are also some large, irregular-shaped pellets (up to 1 mm across) within which the carbonate occurs as grit in a turbid matrix; these are perhaps faecal pellets. Traces of quartz grit are present. Limestone, pelitomorphic, microfossiliferous, microclastizoic. SL0198. Britrocks S35063. Magnification x40. Light PPL. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | Sutherland, A. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | Description from: Limestones of Scotland: chemical analyses and petrography. Edinburgh : HMSO, 1956. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 343.57 KB; 1000 x 750 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 198 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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